With today marking the first day of National Preparedness Month (NPM),Â I wanted to mention that Ready Campaign Deputy Director Rebecca Marquis told me this morning that this year’s NPM has set the record for number of coalition members.
As of last Friday, there were 3684 members breaking the biggest previous figure of 3200 two years ago. [...]

During National Preparedness Month, the blog will be highlighting interesting, innovative and fun readiness events and ideas that are going on around the nation. One of those is the “30 Days, 30 Ways” Contest created byÂ Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency (CRESA) in Vancouver, Washington. According to its website:
Each day in September, CRESA is going to [...]

As the U.S. kicks off Â National Preparedness Month today, I thought I would reprint aÂ letter to the editorÂ from a newspaper in Canada during that nationâ€™s Emergency Preparedness Week. I think anyone involved in public preparedness will empathize with the challenge of engaging the public on this issue. The letter:
To the editor:
I guess everyone in Scugog [...]

With National Preparedness Month beginning tomorrow, I am posting a short video I shot a couple weeks ago at FEMA headquarters with Ready Campaign Director Darryl Madden in which he urges Americans to prepare and discuss the with their “family & loved ones about they’ll do in the face of an emergency”. The threat of [...]

You know you’ve made it in New York City when the Empire State Building’s lights promote your cause. So, maybe preparedness is catching on in the Big Apple.
The City of New York’s Office of Emergency Management must be thrilled that the Empire State Building will be lit up in “READY New York Yellow” on the [...]

Last week, I visited the three-member Ready Campaign team — Director Darryl Madden, Deputy Director Rebecca Marquis, and Campaign Specialist Chris BernsteinÂ – at FEMA headquarters to get a briefing on the 7th annualÂ National Preparedness Month (NPM) which begins in less than two weeks.
NPM,Â sponsored by the Ready Campaign in partnership with Citizen Corps and the Ad [...]

The U.S. Army has declared August as Anti-Terrorism Awareness Month with installations throughout the country running programs stressing vigilance, reporting suspicious activities and protecting Army communities. The campaign is focused on families as well as uniformed personnel on bases.
According to an article on the Army’s website:
In February, the Department of the Army determined Anti-Terrorism Awareness [...]

The American Public Health Asssociation (APHA) is asking citizens to make an online promise “to prepare my family, friends and community”.Â The pledge initiative is part of the APHA’s Get Ready campaign.
It asks the public to do five things: get a flu vaccination and other recommended immunizations, create a family communications and evacuation plan, have an [...]

Orange County California officials have an interesting new strategy to get the word out to the public about preparing for disasters — ask the public to give them their word they will prepare.
ReadyOC is launching theÂ “Promise to Prepare” campaign requesting local residents publicly commit on its web site that they will take at least one [...]